426-Hemi

Hey Kevin....... question and some insight.............. LOL That engine supply you got isn't the only kit to have all this! The old AMT-Ertl '70 Coronet was the first kit I EVER found to have 3 complete engines in it...... this one only missing the 426 DOHC Hemi...... LOADED for us Mopar guys, I got several! -This is the insight I've found I THINK AMT pulled a Chrysler trick LOL took several "B" body kits, and put bodies on the same frame over-an-over........ making them a Mini-Mopar dealership LOL More or less a little "re-badging" too...... Which for models is a GREAT way to keep "true" to the prototype! Now my question, what engine you Hey Kevin....... question and some insight.............. LOL That engine supply you got isn't the only kit to have all this! The old AMT-Ertl '70 Coronet was the first kit I EVER found to have 3 complete engines in it...... this one only missing the 426 DOHC Hemi...... LOADED for us Mopar guys, I got several! -This is the insight I've found I THINK AMT pulled a Chrysler trick LOL took several "B" body kits, and put bodies on the same frame over-an-over........ making them a Mini-Mopar dealership LOL More or less a little "re-badging" too...... Which for models is a GREAT way to keep "true" to the prototype! Now my question, what engine you going with for the GTX? I ask as I would be interested in the exhaust manifolds to the 440, which are part numbers 355 & 356. BUT I'd be interested in that whole motor if you'd trade it off..... let me know in PM!

Guys, I'm stumped. I know there used to be a whole section of specific "NASCAR" paints made by Testors, locally, NO ONE seems to know what the heck I'm talking about at the stores.... HOWEVER, I've got a street car '70 Superbird, that I want to make a "street legal" Petty car, painted up in Petty Blue, with the top having the vinyl removed as it be a "NASCAR" clone...... Problem being, the Petty Blue paint. can it be gotten still OR has it been put under another name? (Sorry guys, I'm too specific oriented to trust store shelving "paint label" swatches to see or trust which is the correct shade (I've been burnt hard several times with paint and shade by the labels they come with) Any advice and or help with this would be greatly appreciated as I need some sort of direction.....

Bruce, I LOVE the motto..... "MacGyver On..." -NIICE its been awhile since I've heard someone say that name and being a sort of genius on different difficult situations!!!! -I miss the show!

-You know I'ma bone head...... I didn't ask, you got pics of the '76 grille by chance? I'd like to see the grille to see if its one correct to the year of truck, and 2 if I can get away with using it to back date a truck I have planned..... (I'm unsure) without seeing a picture of the '76 grille tho!

Thanks Steve..... I didn't think you were finished with the kit..... I'll have to see what I can have done locally for the Butterscotch paint.... I got a build planned for that color on a car. So. Just.something different and out of the ordinary you know? LOOKS GREAT on your truck too! The white fits right in! Modelhaus.......figures, I'm screwed LOL (I can't order online)

See thats my issue..... Locally, I'm very limited with supplies, I have a couple places, to get models, Micheal's, Hobby Lobby, and one hobby shop. BUT there are a few other places I can get other then big box store paints..... AND one that will order whatever type and color I want, without a hefty shipping/order charge and the nice part, they don't charge me for the entire order up front. I pay when the item(s) are in....... SO, having said that, I got one HUGE paint supply, believe me 3,000 bottles, cans, jars, pints, even quarts of some colors as I do other larger projects that can use the same paint for a lot of the same sort of work only at times in bigger quantities.... But having said that, my Roadrunner as you seen it, is in fact going to be Testors "red" #1103 right from the little 1/4th ounce bottle. I got 2 bottles one full and one partly full, that will be thinned out to spray which will match the '68 Plymouth "PP-1" Matador Red as you see what I'm doing on my car! So... Right now, I'm merely waiting, AND the kit itself is sort of packed away out of harms way right now as I was doing some hefty shop remodeling on the walls and even work benches so.... I have to dig it out when I'm ready to start the body paint! BUT I a lot of times have things (or try too anyway) in place for when I start a build, IF I can.... Doesn't always work that way, BUT then again, this is why I have a lot of kits sitting on the back burner in the shadows.... -Keeps me going, ya know? So your model Roadrunner, you going with the box stock 426 Hemi, or you gonna go the route I did and take the first Roadrunner and use the "standard" motor it? The "Roadrunner 383"????

-My first Demolition Derby car was a '74 Dodge Monoco! LOL *Runs from flyin' bricks*

Thanks Kevin, its coming down the pipe....... I've been able to paint small things with the air brush so time is comin'...... I just got to get more red paint for me to start!!!!

Thanks Andy, I'll see whats in the Aftermarket area and then go from there........ As I have a bit to come up with how I am gonna do this one! -Much appreciated! Thanks

I can't remember if I had posted here or not.. SO here goes...... My daily driver is my wifes car....a '04 Buick LaSabre. THEN you have MY BEAST as MY Daily Driver: '67 Dodge Power Wagon W-200 And finally, my inheritance...... My Dad built the '39 Chevy Business coupe before he passed away. NEVER got to drive it either. So he's my silent passenger when I'm driving HIS car. When I go, it will be passed onto his only grandchild, my daughter...... R.I.P. Dad, your car will remain in the family if I can help it!

With me, I LOVE detail work.. BUT that also lends its hand to what I have. see where I live theres very little to offer and I can't just order online, so A LOT of the time, I work with what I have in-hand.... I often look for other sources too, for say plug wires..... A local place carries ANY and EVERY color imaginable to 30 gauge stuff so...... I'm good to go at a 50 foot roll at a time! But I do as much as I'm able some times in a lot of the builds I got going, I've sat them aside waiting on something while I continue to build something else waiting for materials, but I keep going in one way or another! And like said, it really depends on the mood and feeling if I'm gonna go "all out", OR just simply..........."go"!!!!

Didn't know they made sleeves! Pricey? EDIT: Forgot to ask, they have a website by chance? (I'm sorry, I've been back to model cars in the past 2 years so a lot I'm not familiar with) and have to ask these things!

-LOVE the rust work on the snow plow! NICE job! Plow off the Revell Monogram Chevy?

Jordan, NICE ole S10! I remember these kits when they were new back in the day! Come with a 4.3L V-6. SO, having said that, I can't wait to see that turbo'd!

NICE! ya should post pics of the engine work and what ya got done currently!!!!! Be GREAT to see a 70's Dodge truck, with a slant 6 in it!

LOVE IT. I agree with Harry, on BMF the wipers and door handles, BUT I have to say, I don't think your done yet.... or are ya? Going for that chrome-less look? The truck looks GREAT Tho! I love the Butterscotch paint with the white! But I have to ask, where did you find the Butterscotch paint? I have an idea for the use of that color myself! Something else I noticed, this is the first time, I have seen the long bed Dodge truck WITH the tail lights in-tact.. that chrome-ish trim, an insert that goes in first followed by the lens, OR is that the way the lens is casted and you painted the trim ring around the lens itself to look like chrome?? I have to cough up something like this myself, as I have one of these but its missing the lens so, I'm trying to think HOW I am gonna get that detail made!

WELL how I'd look at if it were me, your gonna make it open, if you go through all the work to make it happen, THEN if you want, you can make it that you, yourself can open it as people watch when on display, or have it closed and no one would know it opened till YOU mentioned it that you made it happen.... Honestly, I vote to make it open.... just to add to the conversational piece it has already become! Just one more high-end detail subject going into it. THEN take and make up a BOAT LOAD of little kit boxes to fill it with LOL OR print out a picture of stacked up boxes in your collection and put that picture on a piece of plastic nearest the doors inside to look as tho its fulla model kits! OR.. you could really fancy and build a 1/25th scale motorcycle to stand in there as tho its being transported somewhere, or going to a custom shop. LOL The possibilities with an opening rear door, is really endless!

I don't know what they sell for, but I LOVE to get my hands on that ;68- '70 Dodge truck thats made into a fire truck!!!! I'm droolin' here!!!!!!!

Good GAWD man, is that Bronze Poly "MM-1", white stripe and white vinyl top, is DEAD-SEXY man! Myself, I'm fond of the rims they used, those are the Mopar "Magnum 500's"...... I'm partial to the Mopar Rallye rims myself (those found on the '71 Hemi Cuda kits). -But they don't look bad on this '68..... So far, yours is lookin' good too... Hemi Orange?

Thanks! Yes, let me know on the 383. whats the one look like in the 'Cuda? (I'm not familiar with thats kit) so. I got a '69 'Cuda with a 426 Hemi in it so (glue bomb, rebuild)........... -I do a bit of trading too so.... just something to ponder!

Being a molder too........ I haven't found a lot of my casting to have ANY air bubbles...... it sounds like the sanding process is getting under the top "crust" of the resin, which sanding removes some of the resin opening air bubbles that would be UNDER this "crust"...... IF it were me, I'd try to coat the resin with a hard clear coat first to "seal" it to give a little more meat to the crust......THEN wet sand with high grit wet/dry sand paper, 1200 to 2000 grit. As mentioned tho, pressurizing the mold to suck out air is to make the resin hunker down into the mold itself, removing air bubbles. BigTallDad is right...... when poured, in a thin stream, SLOWLY, reduces the amount of air that can get in the part, through the molding process. Believe it or not, the parts I mold are NOT done with a pressure pot... OPEN AIR pour, with the thinnest stream going in as I can get..... As for the lacquer paint, I have yet to have ANY ISSUE with lacquer paint on my resin parts in fact lacquer is ALL I use, primer or finish coatings.... Not once EVER having an issue getting pin holes.... IF a lacquer clear finish was used to coat it, it ought to be thick enough to fill the holes, not make them! BUT, using acrylic enamels should do the same thing......fill holes not create as acrylic paint is a form of plastic when cure!

NICE work transforming a '71 to a '72!!!!! Question tho..... what power plant your real one have in it? Same as the '71 kit?

Thanks Kevin! Body paint is coming soon, I'm finally able to air brush, or so it seems, (I've been testing using it, on small things) so.... I bet this week if I get a chance, this car WILL have a red base coat on it! -Stay tuned!

Mark, Thanks! Much appreciated! The accident I'm healing from and doing better and coming up to the 2nd surgery to get the tendons working in my ring finger on my right hand. All is well tho! As for the 383 engine, guy, I MADE IT.... I mold my own resin engine parts! PM me if your still lookin' for one, I'll set ya up!

-You are aware that Dodge actually did make 6 of these trucks? They were based off the 2500 Ram, in 1997, 6 were made, and they were called the Dodge T-Rex..... Have a look: Now to keep going, I too, have one of these planned built from 1 Revel VTS Dodge Ram, and a second bed to another one. I plan to see what it take/require to make a rear differential set up, as well as rear suspension. A bit complicated, but looks like it be a FUN build! -Not sure tho, I'm gonna use what they did from Dodge under the hood, The Truck V-10...... I think I'm gonna go a 6.4L Hemi (The new one found in the 2500 Rams and the single rear tire 3500 (NOT the duallie) so..... Just something different. -We'll see, that is, if I can't get my hands on a 5.9L or 6.7L Cummins diesel for in it!